Appeal No. 2001-0632
Application No. 08/650,248
There are similar problems with the examiner’s rationale as
applied to the other independent claims. Accordingly, we will
not sustain the rejection of claims 1-12 under 35 U.S.C. 103.
Our decision herein should not be taken as an affirmation of
the patentability of the rather broad instant claimed subject
matter, but, rather, only that the examiner has not made a proper
rejection of the claimed subject matter under 35 U.S.C. 103. To
deny a patent on the broadest instant claimed subject matter, the
examiner would need to show no more than a disclosure or a
suggestion in the prior art of merely ordering a scan chain
according to, or, in some way, related to, the distribution of a
clock signal. This the examiner has not done.
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